Arrest of Mussolini in Khordad 1982 + photo
Mussolini, who once had a socialist-inspired moniker and was raised under the shadow of a blacksmith and anti-Catholic father, spent his youth escaping the military, working in Switzerland and active in left-wing circles before becoming a controversial figure.
Mussolini, who once had a socialist-inspired moniker and was raised under the shadow of a blacksmith and anti-Catholic father, spent his youth escaping the military, working in Switzerland and active in left-wing circles before becoming a controversial figure.
According to ambassador Arjan; Mussolini was raised with strong socialist ideals and became one of the leading figures in Italian socialist circles at a young age.
In June 1902, Mussolini went to Switzerland to escape military service. There he worked as a bricklayer, tried his hand at journalism and joined a labor union.
He became active in the socialist movement of Italians residing in Switzerland; He wrote for the Lavenire del Lavatore newspaper, which means "the future of the worker", organized meetings, gave speeches to the workers, and worked as the secretary of the Italian Workers' Union in Lausanne.
In 1903, Bern police arrested him for supporting a violent general strike. Mussolini spent two weeks in prison and was then deported to Italy. He was released there and returned to Switzerland.
In 1904, he returned to Lausanne after being arrested again in Geneva and expelled for forging documents. There, he studied at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne and attended the courses of Vilfredo Pareto.
In December 1904, he returned to Italy to receive an amnesty for desertion, a crime for which he had been convicted in absentia.
Since performing military service was one of the conditions for amnesty, he joined the "Bersaglieri" unit in Forli on December 30, 1904. After two years of military service, from January 1905 to September 1906, he turned to teaching again.
After his discharge from the army, Mussolini wrote and edited several socialist newspapers and became known as the rising star of the Italian left wing.
Benito Mussolini was the son of Alessandro Mussolini; A blacksmith who was a republican socialist and strongly anti-Catholic. His mother was a religious teacher and a devout Catholic.
Despite their opposing views on religion, the couple married and had three children, Benito being the eldest.
His full name, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, was derived from the names of three prominent socialists. Benito helped his father in blacksmithing and inherited Alessandro's political views - nationalism, socialism and republicanism - from him.